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5 unusual facts about Waldburg-Zeil


Bad Wurzach

Seibranz was once taxable for the most part by the chieftain of Waldburg-Zeil.

Georg, Truchsess von Waldburg

Georg III Truchsess von Waldburg-Zeil (Waldsee, January 25 1488 – Bad Waldsee, May 29 1531), also known as Bauernjörg, was a German Army Commander in the German Peasants' War.

Monarchy of Liechtenstein

After some time, the family was able to arrange the purchase of the minuscule Herrschaft ("Lordship") of Schellenberg and countship of Vaduz (in 1699 and 1712 respectively) from the Hohenems.

Waldburg-Waldburg

Waldburg-Waldburg was a partition of Waldburg-Wolfegg-Zeil and was divided between the other two parts of Waldburg-Wolfegg-Zeil — Waldburg-Wolfegg and Waldburg-Zeil — in 1660.

Wilhelm Karl, Duke of Urach

Karl Gero, Duke of Urach (1899–1981), 3rd Duke, who married Countess Gabriele of Waldburg-Zeil (1910–2005).


Bad Waldsee

In 1406 the authority of the Stewarts of Waldburg was renewed, when the city of Waldsee, together with the towns of Mengen, Riedlingen, Munderkingen and Saulgau, were finally sold off from the House of Habsburg.

Bartholomäus Aich

His only surviving work is the musical-dramatic festival play Armamentarium comicum amoris et honoris (The Comic Armory of Love and Honor), written on the occasion of the wedding of Count Maximilian Willibald of Waldburg-Wolfegg and Clara Isabella Princess of Aarschot and Arenberg, that took place in Lindau on December 6, 1648.

Eschenheimer Turm

Apart from a central boulevard (die Zeil), the site of the cattle market and the Roßmarkt, the new town was primarily devoted to gardens and agriculture, rather than residential or commercial buildings.

Heggbach Abbey

In 1875 the property was bought by Prince Franz von Waldburg zu Wolfegg und Waldsee who left the buildings to Franciscan sisters from the convent in Reute in 1884.

Hermann, Prince of Hohenzollern-Hechingen

Maria Antonia Philippine, (* 8 February 1781 in Dagstuhl; † 25 December 1831 The Hague) ∞ 12 July 1803 Count Friedrich Ludwig von Waldburg-Capustigall ( 25 October 1776; † 18 August 1844)

Inditex

Today Inditex's stores can be seen in places like New York's Fifth Avenue, Milan's Corso Vittorio Emanuele II, London's Regent Street and Oxford Street, Frankfurt's Zeil, Shanghai's Nanjing West Road, Tokyo's Shibuya, Istanbul's Nişantaşı, Seoul's Myeong-dong, and Vienna's Kärntner Straße.

Karl Gero, Duke of Urach

On 20 June 1940 Karl Gero von Urach married Countess Gabriele of Waldburg zu Zeil und Trauchburg (1910–2005).

Kleiner Klebeband

Maximilian Willibald of Waldburg-Wolfegg (1604–1667) started to collect the drawings of the Kleiner Klebeband from 1650 until his death.

In fall 2011 the Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz und museums of the city of Augsburg bought them from the family Waldburg-Wolfegg and in December of the same year they were shown to the public for the first time in a special exhibition.

Maximilian Willibald of Waldburg-Wolfegg

Maximilian Willibald of Waldburg-Wolfegg (1604–1667) was the head of the house of Waldburg-Wolfegg, military commander and the governor of Upper Palatinate for the Electorate of Bavaria.

Ordenspalais

Erection of the building at Wilhelmplatz No. 7/8 began in 1737 as the residence of the Prussian Major General Karl Ludwig, Count of Waldburg-Capustigall, who died the next year.

Synods of Augsburg

The two Bishops Christopher von Stadion (1517–43) and Otto Truchsess von Waldburg (1543–73) made use of diocesan synods (1517, 1520, 1543 in Dillingen, and 1536 in Augsburg) for the purpose of checking the progress of the Reformation through the improvement of ecclesiastical life.

Waldburg-Capustigall

Waldburg-Capustigall was a partition of Waldburg-Trauchburg and was raised to a County in 1686, before being annexed by the Kingdom of Prussia in 1745.

Waldburg-Friedburg-Scheer

Waldburg-Friedburg-Scheer was a County located in southeastern Baden-Württemberg, Germany.

Waldburg-Scheer

Waldburg-Scheer was a County located in southeastern Baden-Württemberg, Germany.

Waldburg-Wolfegg

Waldburg-Wolfegg was a County located in southeastern Baden-Württemberg, Germany.

White Bluff, Georgia

They moved to White Bluff in 1868 after Waldburg reclaimed the island, which after the Civil War had been briefly reserved for freed slaves by General Sherman's Special Field Orders, No. 15.

Wilhelm Carl von Rothschild

The couple first resided in the Rothschild house on the Zeil (Zeilpalast), but later moved to a palace in Grü­ne­burg, and also lived in a villa in Königstein im Taunus.

Wolfegg

The map remained at the castle until 2001 when the Waldburg-Wolfegg family sold it to the U.S. Library of Congress.


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